The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-31
snrrH CAROLINA

firm if any strike is precipitated.
| SOUTH CAROLINA,
w E. eileen will soon establish brick
| yard at Camden.
An Anderson county girl, it is said, hes
Lizard for pet
A saw min has been erected by Mauldn
& Son at Hampton
| j. I. Harris is erecting a flour mill and
| glnnery at Waterloo.
/ ARRANGEMENTS are being made to start
tobacco factory at Greenvllle.
Moses g. Hardy, lumbermen, are building
a standard gauge railroad near Sumter.
Mallett Bros, Of Sumter, are preparing
to rebuild their saw mill recently burned
The Farmers Increment is the name OF a
new paper soon TO be started in Timmoas-
VILE
The ninth anniversary of the Judson Lie
rary Society of the Greenville Female OIL
lege will take place June Is.
| Thomas Saxon, a young negro who had
been'at Allen University for some time, vas
admitted to the bar last week in Columbia.
J. P Finley, of Bookmans, Richlald
county, has sent to the Agricultural Ie-
partment some very fine specimens of six
| cocoons.
E. Motz will erect an eighty stamp mill
at his Brewer gold mine, in Chesterfield
county, and will increase the capacity of his
machinery
w. B. Richardson, A. G. Willis and F. S.
Upton have secured the mineral right on 500
acres of gold land at Glendale, which they
will develop.
The Varnville court will convene on June
ID. Judge Hudson will preside. The Grim
inal docket will not be large, but will en-
brace one or two important cases of man
slaughter.
The commencement exercises of Claflin
| University, at Orangeburg, were concluded
Wednesday evening, and with these exer-
ciSes closed the most successful and prosper
Gus year in the history of the institution.
Varnville still continues to improve. The
| Council has purchased fine lot of land adj
| joining the academy, for the purpose of
making fine park, and are also engaged in
negotiations toward the sinking of an ar
tesian well.
c. NJ. Sherard, of Moffattsville, has two
cows, one a half Devon and the other half
Jersey, from which he has sold 127 pounds
of butter since Jan. last, besides supplying
lAs own family with milk and butter. He
has more milk than he can use, and feeds
great deal of it to his hogs.
The o. B. Social Club of Laurensville
will have picnic at Mountain Shoals next
Thursday, June 2. The party will doubt
| less be large and gay one, to consist of
both sexes. They will go out in true demo-
cratic style--in road wagons-and will leave
early in the morning, about o'clock.
| The Laurensville Town Council, in &C
cordance with the provisions of the new
charter, has been working convicts on the
streets in default of the payment of fines i'm
posed. This is better than to have prisoners
lie in Jail at the expense of the town, and
the exercise is more wholesome to them.
Rev. J. H. King, Jr. pastor of the col
ored Methodist church in Walhalla, was ar
rested about two weeks ago on the charge
of forgery. He gave bond in the sum of
$500 for his appearance at a preliminary
trial, but when the time arrived he failed to
appear He has since been captured in At
| lanta.
On June a series of match games will be
commenced at Vanville between the Allen
dale and Varnville base ball clubs Pre-
parations are being made to make the occa-
sion of the most enjoyable kind especially
to their visiting friends. The club will ap-
pear in their new dress--white suits, with
blue stockings, and blue star on top of the
caps. A large and comfortable stand has
been erected on the park, and the grounds
are nicely arranged
Last Thursday DR.. P. A White, of
| Anderson, received telegram announcing
that Mrs. White, who has been spending
the winter and spring at Leesburg, Fla,
had been taken suddenly i'll, and was in a
precarious condition. The doctor left for
Florida on the next train. The latest infor-
nation from Mrs. White was to the effect
that she was improving. Her many friends
in Anderson wish her a speedy recovery,
and hope she will soon be able to return
home
The Thornwell Orphanage, located at
Clinton, an institution under the fostering
care OF benevolent people everywhere, was
originated by the Presbyterian church and
is under the care Of that denomination, but
it does not confine it's benefits to orphans of
any denomination or locality More than
half of its wards are from other States than
South Carolina, and from other denomina-
lions than the Presbyterian. Ten States
and seven denominations are represented
among the inmates.